JACKSON— Attorney General Jim Hood announced today that a Blue Springs resident is going to prison for attempting to profit off the murder of a Panola County teenager by using the murder as a way to fraudulently collect donations.

Janet Lee Posey, 41, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of false pretense before Union County Circuit Court Judge John A. Gregory. Posey was sentenced to 10 years in prison, with three of those years suspended, leaving seven years to serve. Judge Gregory ordered her to serve three years of post-release supervision and pay $1,433 in court costs.

Posey was arrested in December 2014 by investigators with the Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division and the Union County Sheriff's Office following an investigation that revealed Posey had started a fraudulent internet scam after the murder of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers. The investigation revealed that Posey attempted to collect donations for the family without their consent or knowledge.

Quinton Tellis, the man who will face trial in the brutal 2014 burning death of Panola County teen Jessica Chambers, will go to trial a few months later than expected.

Tellis, 28, who was indicted in Chambers death a little less than a year ago in February 2016, will go to trial October 9, District Attorney John Champion said Monday night. He was originally set to stand trial on June 19.

BATESVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) — Security is expected to extremely tight when the trial starts for a man accused of setting a Panola County teen on fire.

According to WATN, Quinton Tellis’ capital murder trial will begin October 10.

Tellis is accused of murdering 19-year-old Jessica Chambers in December 2014.

The judge ordered jurors to be transported by buses from Pike County. They will be sequestered during the trial.

“There will be multiple officers there to provide any assistance this jury panel needs overnight. It will be around the clock security,” says Major Barry Thompson with the Panola County Sheriff’s Office. “There will be roving plainclothes officers inside and outside the hotel in order to stop any outside contact with this jury. They will be absolutely safe.”

BATESVILLE, Miss. — Court will be back in session Monday in the trial of a Mississippi man charged in the 2014 burning death of a woman.

Jurors deliberated more than four hours Sunday before the judge sent the sequestered group back to their hotel for the night.[...]Firefighters testified Chambers told them someone named “Eric” or “Derek” set her on fire. Some first responders said Chambers looked like a “zombie,” with burned skin and hair, when she walked from a wooded area in Courtland, Mississippi, on Dec. 6, 2014. She died hours later.

District Attorney John Champion said Chambers’ throat was severely damaged and she could not pronounce the letter T. He said she could have been trying to say “Tellis.”

Before noon, the jury said they were deadlocked. The jury came back around 2:00PM with a verdict. The judge asked the jury foreman if it was a unanimous verdict. The foreman answered yes. The verdict form was all 12 jurors said NOT guilty. The Judge polled the jurors individually and there were 7 guilty, 5 NOT guilty. This was done in OPEN court, revealing each juror's votes.

Today, the judge has read three quasi-Allen charges to the jury, sending the jury back to deliberate, the latest at 3:00PM. Mississippi does not recognize the official Allen charge.

Cathy, with LawNewz is reporting people are outside the courthouse shouting and yelling. Mostly wanting justice for Tellis, calling the judge a devil. (ETA: this was a short-lived outburst by a few)

Quinton Tellis, who spent more than a year in the DeSoto County Jail before his capital murder trial for the burning death of Jessica Chambers, is back in Panola County custody.

Dist. Atty. John Champion said Tuesday Tellis will most likely stay there unless Louisiana decides it wants him back for court action in that state.[...]A Pike County jury was unable to reach a verdict during Tellis' trial in Batesville that ended Oct. 16 in a mistrial. Champion said immediately afterward that he would definitely retry the case.

Champion said Tuesday his team will assemble next week to begin talking about things, but it will most likely be sometime in November before attorneys meet with the judge and begin to sort out the retrial process.